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Yea, so it's Wednesday and I'm just now getting to typing about my weekend.  Sue me. I had a pretty fantastical weekend.  Thursday and Friday I got out of school at 1:30.  That was nice. Friday night I saw the Hangover III.  I laughed, a lot.  And may have had a small popcorn, with a little bit of butter,   for dinner.  The movie was not as good as the first one, or even the second one, but it was still funny. Saturday morning I was up early for a road trip with the bestie!  Best Friend Road Trip We started our day in Hardy. In downtown Hardy Where we stopped at my favorite place, the Candy Store.  When I was little my mom's family would rent a cabin in Hardy for a nice little family vacation.  My favorite part of said vacation was going to this candy store, what can I say, I've always been a fat kid with a sweet tooth.  However, as I've grown older this Candy Store is not as immaculate as it was in my memory....

A friend of mine asked me to partake in No Weigh May with her.  The title suggest just what the activity is, you do not weigh for the entire month of May.  I told her that I needed to weight on May 11 because that was my goal date, but other than that I was all for No Weigh May.  Yeah, that was a lie. I'm an epic failure at No Weigh May. I am highly aware of all the reasons why that is not a good idea.  But I can't help it.  I'm like an addict, I need my scale fix. My Drug  I started off No Weigh May thing pretty well.  I weighed a couple of days and would stay off the scare of a couple of days.  I said I would just do that til the 11th.  Yeah, so not so much.  I would get on the scale every dang day.  More like Everyday Weigh May. I suppose my addiction to the scale started a long time ago.  I guess the fact that I have been overweight most of my life I am obsessed with what the scale. And just so you know, the scal...

I have talked about why I wanted to lose weight here and here but I have realized I have never told you how I got started. First, I had to have the will power to do it.  I have started many-a-times before and have been unsuccessful.  Sure I'd lose a couple of pounds, but always revert back to my fat girl ways.  If you have read eight one of my "WHY" blogs, you will know that this time, something just clicked and I didn't want to be this way anymore.  This was the picture that changed my mind! After I decided I wanted to lose weight, I had to figure out how.  I see people talk about eating clean, but if you're like me, I had no idea what that meant.  I also knew I wanted to do this on my own, not diet pills or shakes or magic potions--just me. I knew I need to get moving and get eating right. I started with the moving.  I went to the gym with a friend just to try it out.  She had a membership where she could bring someone with her for...

When I started this weight loss journey, my goad date was May 11.  I wanted to lose 40 pounds.  Today is May 11.  I have lost 36 pounds.  I am four pounds away, but I am ok with that. Yes, I am sad and disappointed that I didn't make it to my goal, but I am proud.  I have accomplished things in four months that I never thought possible.  I never thought the words "I love to go to the gym" would come out of my mouth, but they have.  I have walked/jogged a 5k.  And I wasn't last.  I have hired a personal trainer, and even thought most days I want to kill him, I am impressed at just what my body can do. I may not be where I want to be, but I am closer than I was in January.  I will get what I want to be, it may take a wile, but I will get there.

My kids in class write in a journal daily.  I enjoy this because it's my way to get to know each one personally.  Some days I tell them what to write about, however the majority of the time they get to write what they want.  They will tell me a story, or something about them and ask me a question.  Monday, one of them told me what they wanted to be when they grew up (I think they said either a teacher or doctor) and then asked me what I would want to be if I wasn't a teacher.  So, I got to thinking about what I would want to do should this whole teaching thing not work out.  This is what I came up with.  1.  Personal Shopper This is the perfect job for me.  I get to shop for someone, probably skinnier and richer than me, and spend someone's money.  Plus I'm pretty sure I got a decent sense of fashion so therefore I think this is right up my alley. 2.  Back Up Singer. A back up singer doesn't have to be the best singer in the w...

I have been a slacker lately.  Well at least a slacker at blogging. I have not been slacking in other areas. I am starting at the end, if you will, with what happened this weekend, so we will work backwards.  It's my blog, I can do what I want. This Saturday I did my first 5K.  Or well, I did my first 5K when I was worried about time (I have down the Race for the Cure before, but that was just a walk for me). I didn't decide to the 5K until Monday.  I have been practicing and training for a 5K for 9 weeks.  If I didn't do it now, I wasn't going to do it.  As the week progressing and got colder and rainier, I grew more and more worried about this 5K.  First of all, I knew it was going to be hard enough to do this things in nice weather.  I had almost decided that if the weather did not cooperate I was just going to chalk this up as a loss and try again another day. However, when Friday rolled around, I knew I had to set my alarm and get u...